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Usuda-sama,excuse me for the late disturbance......HahYes,Yes.Stigma 76: A cruel choice

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...I understand.I'll come right away.You're going?....Damn~~~Something I dropped was delivered at the front desk.I'll go get it real quick.R- Right now?It's my seal after all.Eh? And your bank book?

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....That's still here. // Maybe I left the zipper open...It's our important money....That's no good, be more careful.I'll be right back.Wait for me.It's already late,I might fall asleep.Eh?

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Just kidding. // I'll wait for you.So be quick.Yeah.I'll hurry.

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Ootori-san...It's obvious that I know at least which meeting my fiancé attends.

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Her cell phone is turned off.And I couldn't connect to the cell of her friend, who's staying in the same room. // It isn't all that weird for me being worried, right?....He...He tries to appear calm,but it's so obvious that he's pissed!!

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I told you, didn't I? That Chizu-chan would rather choose me than you!....Y- You'll let me see Chizuru.I have to talk to her.No need to!Chizu-chan chose me!!And Chizu-chan's grandma won't be a hostage anymore either.!I prepared the money!We'll transfer her grandma to another hospital!!

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!He'stotally panicked!Someone who tries to rule over people's emotion with money...!I have saved up 3 million yen so far.I'll give that all to Chizu-chan.But it's not like I bought her love with that money!She chose me regardless of that......!

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Wh- What?....KukukukuWhat's so funny!?No,excuse me.

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Just like you said, Chizuru loves you.!?It's frustrating, but I'll admit to it.Chizuru decided to become my wife in exchange for treating her grandma's illness, including all the costs.That's just as frustrating, but I'll also admit to it."Balo disease"Huh?

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A borderline form of multiple sclerosis.The texture of the white matter of the cerebrum suddenly degenerates and causes various neuropathy. It's an disease with unknown cause...!That's the illness Chizuru's grandma has.It causes impaired consciousness, mental handicap, lalopathy, motor paralysis, walking impairment and such. And in radical progressed state, a third of the patients die after a few months.D-Die...To avoid a resurfacing of the illness, she was given steroids, blood plasma substitution and immunosuppressant....And she has to be injected with an expensive drug that's still not admitted in the country 1-2 per week.S- So what!You thought you could frighten me with all these difficult terms? [Well, on me it worked-.-]...What I want to say is...

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If you use all your money to move her to a different hospital and get her treated there,she will have about 3 months.Just3 months----Love, huh...

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You gave the woman you lovethe idea that "It's okay to let a relative die".Her precious grandma desperately continued to support her through university so that she could become a doctor, after her father died.And you made Chizuru abandon that grandma.

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Love sure can be cruel!No way...No way...You're kidding me...There's no way Chizu-chan would...But if he's telling the truth,Chizu-chan accepted me with the determination to abandon her grandma....?No.To begin with, Chizuru was acting strange today after she accepted me----!